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*****RAM Question for all you memory gurus out there*****

I've had this cheap system for almost 1 year now, trying to squeeze every last ounce of FPS out of it.
Most of the day the system is on no OC, but when I come home and game, I set my OC settings on, so the OC is not a 24/7 setup to prolong the life of the system.

Since the beginning I've had the RAM at 1,[email protected] with memory timings left on 'AUTO' which means the AUTO sets it to:
[13-11-11-28 T2]

Recently I've had the urge to bump this up to 2133Mhz to squeeze more performance out of my APU.

At first, with timings on AUTO and setting it to 2133Mhz, my PC wouldn't post.

I then tweaked the timings at: [13-13-13-30 T2] no voltage change (still 1.5v)

This worked!!

And I was extremely impressed with no errors on #6 tests (not full passes) of memtest86.

From value RAM rated at CL11 1600Mhz!

But I believe I can do better especially with the timings.

My questions are:

1.) what timing steps would you recommend and should I go down to T1 Command Rate, to try?

2.) Should I do a [13-13-13-30 T2] down to [12-13-12-29/28 T1] or is there some other pattern I should follow?

3.) how many #Tests of memtest86 tests should I do // or // or how many FULL passes should I do, before I consider it stable enough? Should no errors appear, of course.

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Rome 2: Total War
Forest Benchmark
720p, medium settings.
on [-] OC === 49.1FPS
on {-} OC === 60.8FPS
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One of the responses I got from TomsHardware was "just try"
But the thrill of Overclocking 'just that little bit more...' is too tempting and addictive

And I want to do it right, so am looking for people with experience on 'memory timings' and memory overclocking, as this is the one things I do not have a lot of experience with, but have already read many 'tutorials' about.

I got SiSoft Sandra and I'm a little confused but determined to get those benchmark results!

Any idea which ones I should specifically be benching for under the Memory section?
Memory bandwidth first?
Others to watch out for?
Bearing in mind I am specifically testing for RAM overclocking improvements with frequency and timings.

Thanks for your time.

It's going to be a benchmarking weekend for me... If I can figure out which ones to do.
Cheers